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Sigurd laughed, and held out his hand to shake in the echange of greetings. "Then we are both somewhat out of our ease, are we not? I cannot claim to be much of a teacher, but I know my way around a saddle – not through the beating of wings. That is the dominion of those in the north. Fearsome riders, the Pegasus Knights of Silesse – are you...perhaps...?"
He let the question trail off, eyes searching the young man's face for something of the familiar. He knew that the faculty and students at Garreg Mach came from all over the world, from continent over continent, but his heart held out the slightest hope that he might yet make a new friend from his own home.
Merric seemed quite comfortable moving about the pegasus stables, and Sigurd recognized the gait with a smile. "I've no winged mount of my own, I'm afraid. A rank novice! I've done my share of mucking and feeding, but I doubt they are as familiar with me as they seem to be with you – you must have one of your own, then? To be placed in charge, there must be quite a bit of familiarity, I should think."
Whether the pegasi were comfortable now remained to be seen, stamping their hooves and beating their wings against their confines as Sigurd and Merric led some from their stalls out into the open air of the courtyard. Were it merely a horse, Sigurd would have gone through the comfortable paces to warm up the beast's muscles, to lead them in a circuit about the space until they were ready for a run on an extended trail.
As it was, bridle in hand, Sigurd found himself ducking the beat of powerful wings, a beast of freedom eager to take to the sky.
Turning back to Merric, he laughed again, his breath misting in the air. "Well, they are happy to be out in the open, don't they? Is that one yours, then?"
Who's Ready For His Daily Walkies??
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Sigurd had not realized that he was holding his breath until he had released it in his relief – Professor Leo did not appear injured, and rose, albeit slowly, groggily. Reaching over the counter, Sigurd found an empty glass, and filled it from the tap. "Here, collect yourself. We will have to be off to find the perpetrator – I do not think that the dastard could have gotten far."
He cursed their foul luck – that it had been a group event, with many of the monastery's finest knights and professors, but off their guard, unarmed and without mount, made them the perfect targets for the most opportunistic. But atop their opportunism, the thief must have been dreadfully stupid as well. Who else would have so brazenly made an enemy of those most powerful and determined in the continent?
Almost absently, though he had not even been in the room when the catastrophe had fallen, Sigurd patted his trouser pockets, his belt, his cloak, before shaking his head. "I do not believe I have anything missing – it seems as though the thief made a thorough pass at your possessions," he added, gesturing to the proofs-of-purchase littering the ground at their feet. "Have they taken anything else?"
That seemed as good a place as any to begin – what was missing? Between this and method of dispatch – was it magic, or something as mundane as poison that had so efficiently put down several adult bodies in mere minutes? - they might have been able to figure out in what direction to head.
Sigurd's eyes flicked to the backroom of the tavern, where the movement of the tavern owners and staff had not passed in some time. He did not suspect that they were complicit, not entirely, not yet. Perhaps they could see where the servers were, to determine what exactly had happened to the drinks.
Sigurd jerked his head, pressed a finger to his lips. "Come. Let us move – quickly, but quietly. I wonder if the thief is yet among us."
Everybody Wang Chung Tonight :clap::clap:
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Wind ruffled his hair at Lewyn's call, and for half a moment Sigurd felt at home – the battlefield, false as it was, sang to him of nostalgia, of warm camaraderie and the familiar faces of friends at his back. He could not help when his eyes fluttered shut, the smile on his lips canting softly, before snapping his gaze back to Lewyn.
The young bard was a natural in this environment, his own magic shimmering with whatever strange aura permeated the place – if Sigurd hadn't known better, he might have assumed that the young prince was what held thrall over this venue, his own call bringing the wind forward.
"I could never underestimate such a foe!" Indeed, he may have done so, once, when he himself was still young and foolish, and Lewyn had called him to task for it – their foundation built on the deepest respect of a friend willing to turn one's mistakes to face. To say nothing of his magical prowess -
To say nothing of the strange pull he felt. Sigurd did not know what it was, this tug from deep within his gut, but he had felt it, insistent and primal and burning, wildfire in his veins. Just as something had happened to him, something too had happened to Lewyn.
What it was, he was not certain. But with time, perhaps he could find out.
"I am not a man to stand about and crow – it is action for me! Have at thee!" With deliberate steps, almost the footwork of a dance, Sigurd lunged forward, swiping with the tip of his lance at his foe.
Reverse/Rebirth
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"No indeed?" Sigurd did not shift his gaze from the dark in front of him, the shadows shifting and coiling about the path – foreign territory required more caution than he normally brought to a situation, but he eased them forward securely nonetheless. It could have been the hunger, could have been the uncertainty, but for once in his life Sigurd moved slowly, deliberately. "Then I suppose you couldn't count it a failure, being so shunned."
His intention had been to prise the information from the other man in small spurts, to gently remove the bandage from the wound that had festered over their camp for some time and expose it to the cool air, to allow it to breathe and, with fatal optimism, to heal.
Griss, it seemed, was not eager to be so delicate, shoving his fingers into the wound and digging. It remained murky, whether or not his indiscretion had truly been deliberate – if accidental, he seemed more willing than the typical man to take responsibility for it, but Sigurd recalled, with some clarity, the smile on his face when he had lamented that he had not been punished to his satisfaction.
A child playing a game to which only he knew the rules.
Sigurd stopped walking abruptly, and turned, drawing to his full height in front of Griss – they were not so dissimilar in stature, but for their posture, rigid knight before the loose limbs of one who didn't stop moving.
"You did. I daresay it isn't the first life that you've taken, but it can't have escaped your notice that many in our number are killers. It is beneath our company to deny it, or to fancy ourselves any purer for having lost a comrade in battle. It is the opinion of our fellows that you've acted with malice or forethought, but it seems to me that those same companions of ours would not draw breath if not for your power.
"So? Which is it? In our current predicament, I choose to allow you to guard my back in the dark woods, and to take from the shared bounty to sustain yourself – if my trust is misplaced, then shall I have you take point instead, and leave you to what lurks?"
Should've Equipped Leftovers
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He could see why so many people were affected by Griss, by his loud affect, abraded by his rough edges – indeed, Sigurd had been abraded by those rough edges once before, insulted and left wondering why he had been so rankled by the opinion of a man he did not even know.
He saw now: Griss preferred it that way. Whether a front he put on to guard a tender center, or a cry for attention, or a threat, a warning for all nearby to stay back or be burned, Griss seemed to have a very specific way in which he wanted the world to perceive him. For what reason was none of Sigurd's business – at the moment, they were on equal footing: both hungry, but nevertheless both able to work.
"Hmm," he said, the indulgent tone of a father seeping in accidentally, in spite of himself. He paused, caught himself, and shook his head. "Hound, was it? Well, whether the moniker was bestowed, or self-styled, let us hope that it serves us well here – I think in these circumstances, it is not the shining of a knight that we need, but those rather more willing to get dirt under their nails. Yes, and blood as well," his smile was wry this time, tired, but acknowledged the work they were here to do.
He had worked with men who had gotten their hands dirty, with all kinds of viscera. Sigurd could not claim to know whether this story of a dark god was true or fiction, but at the moment it scarce seemed to matter. An able body was an able body, and Griss seemed able enough.
The final comment did bring a laugh forward, earnest. "Well, if we can provide our fellows with a meal that requires a bib, I would say that you deserve more than half. Perhaps when the time comes I will put in a good word for you."
He suppressed the urge to make light of it – knew that there were certainly reasons that their comrades did not like Griss, which had nothing to do with his loud personality. Knew that their party returned with one less on their feet than when they left.
The dark of the woods seemed to inch closer to them, the silence encroaching in with unsettling swiftness. Before his eyes adjusted, the shimmer of his lance allowed Sigurd the barest glance ahead.
There is something in these woods.
"I will lead."
Should've Equipped Leftovers
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January 2024 Activity Check
-PASSED-
Skill Points Earned:
Monthly +1
Event +1
19 -> 21
Allocated:
Authority
C -> C+
Rank Rewards Earned:
Backup (Lance Fighter Mastery)
Equine Greaves (Apollyon Ouranos 2024)
Bullwhip (Apollyon Ouranos 2024)
The Gospel of Pi (Apollyon Ouranos 2024)
Classes Accessed:
Knight Lord
Classes Mastered:
Lance Fighter
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The shoulder met his with aggressive aplomb – more energy than Griss's declaration of his clear conscience. For all that the man talked of his punishment, claimed he relished in the pain the empty belly was giving him and wanted more of it, he'd made his designs on his next meal quickly enough. Sigurd took the aggression with a soft snort, partly amused, as any parent with an unruly child – but there was tedium in it as well, reining in a peer, another knight, whose emotions had gotten the better of him.
But there it was again, this familiar talk of the Emblem he once had been – he still didn't know what that meant, exactly. It was not the first time the accusation had come to lay at his feet, but Griss was no crying little girl. Where Veyle had called him Emblem with excitement, with familiarity, as one might with an oft-told bedtime story, Griss said it with all the derision of someone who didn't believe in fairytales.
"You are eager to make assumptions, aren't you? Because you might have heard a tale or two about me?" Sigurd laughed, undeterred. "It's a fair guess, I suppose – a noble of my standing would have had little cause to starve. We Chalphys were no ascetics. Even any periods of abstention were short-lived, and my men found ways to survive."
Dying of starvation was a slow and painful death. Even at their wits end, any coterie he found himself at the head of smashed against their obstacles hard and fast – they might have chewed their tack in silence, but within a week they were back at a stocked camp with a roaring fire and grease dripping down their chins.
He shook his head. "No. It was never like this. This hears no triumph or glory."
Glancing over at his companion, he took in the raking lines of the other's ribs, the gaunt hollows of his cheeks, and to the burn in his eyes – the condition of his body aside, the hungry look had never seemed to leave Griss' eyes.
"You, however. You seem the kind of man who takes what he wants, when he wants it – no, it is not a condemnation, merely an observation. It's that quality that would do us well, I think, if it could be channeled into finding us some food." He grinned, unabashed of the growl that came from his belly. "Yes, I remember – half is yours."
Food roll: 5! Of course he doesn't find anything!
Should've Equipped Leftovers
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Sleep offers little respite against the pains of the waking world.
You drift off, and always you feel as though you are being scrutinized,
but when you drift back into consciousness, the feeling fades,
not unlike the coming and going of the tide.
One restless night, you are at last approached by The Watcher.
"You have a decision to make."
A feast materializes before you. You can smell it, can nearly taste it,
you can feel the warmth and care put into every bite.
You already know, whatever the decision ahead,
you can only choose one.
O proud knight, standing tall,
There is something you can't do without.
Will you starve,
or will you carry on knowing betrayal is that which awaits around every single turn?
"So, it's been you all along, has it?"
He looked up form where he hunched, seated, back to a wall, curled around his lance. His fingers rested loose around the haft, tremoring gently, as though having released from a long grip as his strength sapped from him.
The sleep hadn't helped - could never, not from the dull ache that had seeped into every inch of him, from the loosening fibers of his wasting muscles to the pinch of dehydration behind his eyes to the cavernous shearing in his gut. He suspected that many of his comrades may have found the discomfort shocking, deeply-seated and impassable, a pain insurmountable.
Sigurd had felt worse pain, only once before. He had never counted himself lucky over it, and yet now the benchmark brought him some semblance of solidity.
He stood, using his lance to prop him upright - proud knight, standing tall might have been an endearment or a taunt, but if nothing else he would not disappoint, if it were within his control - and he peered into the dark for a better look at this Watcher.
"Have you had your fill, then? Gotten from us what you can for yourself? It is easy to be powerful when everyone else has been weakened, isn't it?"
He took the barb in stride - these betrayals that it dangled in front of him, as though it knew him, as though it thought he could be reasoned with. The turns had stung, of course - emotions high and tight and aching desperately for commiseration - but it was not who these people were at their core.
So too their worst, the best is what makes them. He had to hold fast, had to have the hope that if he believed in those around him, that they would believe in him in kind.
"I'm afraid that if you want me to beg, it would be easier to kill me outright." It was said with no venom, no pointed vitriol nor bared teeth - almost pity, for it was a mistake that most only made the once. An easy mistake to make, for a normal man, he supposed.
"You may go," he said, and his grip about his lance tightened once more, the look in his eye glinting steel in the night. "If you return, I do not believe we will meet again under such friendly terms."
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A poor exemplar this man would be of his entire nation. Sigurd did not say it aloud, but he could not restrain his snort.
"It is not your silence that I find disrespectful – indeed, you've been anything but on the subject. I suspect many of us know a great deal of your opinion."
He did not restrain that, either.
What a big man it took, a nasty part of his mind interjected, to insist there was a wrong way to bury a child. It was a wrong doing by its very nature, but it grated, this insistence that they must all stew and flounder in Sir Python's sea of silent bitterness, the dour know-it-all-ness suffocating them while he smugly held himself so distant.
Sigurd took a second, breathed through his nose for a deliberate moment, before collecting himself – it was the hunger, and the grief, and the responsibility, weighing down on him with ever-less support than ever before. He could never have claimed to like Sir Python, from the very beginning there had been something about the way they ill fitted together.
But, quite forcibly he reminded himself, they could not afford such infighting. Not after the flood, and not now.
In answer to young Kris's inquiring eyes, Sigurd tucked Euphorie securely into his arms – she fit easily, as though she too were merely asleep and she was just being shifted to her bedroll – before he crouched in front of the hole he himself had dug, not too terribly far from her son's, placing her within gently.
After a moment of silence; "Do you not find this bickering beneath us?" He did not raise his voice, nor his head, but through the stifling closeness of the air he knew he would be heard.
Heartbreaking! The Worst Man You Know Also Grieves
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"Hm," said Sigurd, pointedly, cocking his head as the other man rose - "So impatient for the gallows? One might think you do feel guilty."
A smile, the barest uptick of his lips. "But I suppose that isn't my business, is it? As it stands, we have rather more pressing matters to attend to."
With a clap to his thighs, Sigurd stood as well, taking a nibble of his own portion of the tack before wrapping it once more and stowing it safely in his pocket. Spread out, he presumed the ration might tide the both of them – grown men, of decent musculature – over for the day, and perhaps the following, depending on activity output. He was hardly the type to conserve his energy, barreling through his life with might and gusto – but even he knew that this was hardly the time to be so careless.
"Half it is. I cannot force you to be so magnanimous, when you're feeling forsaken. Your strength in concert with mine, I think, will benefit us all in the end."
He did not mention that his strength was a paltry shade of himself – gaunt and hanging from himself as though ill-fitting, and battered, stiff and sore from the expedition in the caves only recently. Indeed, a Sigurd at his best might not even have needed the assistance, but for the company.
But so, too, did Griss look wan and thin, and though he did not show much outward discomfort, subdued as the other man was it was clear for all to see.
Nonetheless, Sigurd smiled, and for a moment he felt the flame in his heart burn bright. "Don't let this haggard appearance fool you. I remain happy to greet any challenge that comes our way."
Food roll: 3! Unsuccessful!
Creature roll: 2! It creaches ever closer!
Should've Equipped Leftovers
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The world was cruel…?
He didn't know if he could so flippantly ascribe what had happened to such a trite dismissal. The world was neither cruel nor kind - the world was indifferent spectator, and it was men who acted. Sigurd knew, of course, that the boy could not hear him – could not accept his apology, would not have even been able to understand it were he here to hear it, but...
"Do you not say anything to the dead where you come from, Sir Python? Would that we could all be so efficient." Sigurd shifted as Kris came to kneel beside him, reaching for the boy. His tone came out more clipped than perhaps he meant it, a sharp turn from the words of consolation that had only just left his mouth.
Perhaps the circumstances were getting to him, too.
He might have continued, as well, indulging in the other man getting under his skin for an ignoble moment before Kris reached, paused – and spoke, soft, direct, and so true to his heart that it brought Sigurd short.
Hair tousled like this, he might have been convinced the boy was merely asleep.
Sigurd nodded, gesturing.
"We owe these three so much. The least we can do now is inter them with respect."
Heartbreaking! The Worst Man You Know Also Grieves
#in character#toaapollyonouranos2024#aopi2024#thread: heartbreaking! worst man you know#interaction: aimlessarchery#interaction: unsungblade
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(starter for @twistedisciple)
All this vitriol, over one man.
It was a hard lesson to learn, but learn it they all must, at one point or another: in the field, when a crime is committed, is it better to allot justice at once, to the detriment of other things? Sigurd had been in command long enough, led enough long campaigns, led enough men, that the answer was clear to him, but emotions had run high and sharp, scraping against the edges of their existence for some time now.
And Griss was annoying. That didn't help his case.
Sigurd knew the man's obnoxiousness firsthand, an off-the-cuff rude remark at a party during what felt like another life, and perhaps at this point it was another life, so faraway and unreachable he could not even claim to have been the same man - but this bombastic discourtesy was nothing in comparison to the matter of their dwindling stockpile. To his comrades, it seemed, they were one and the same, but after all was said and done, and the food had been doled out, the fact of the matter remained:
All of their children were dead, and one mother to follow.
And the man himself, this point of contention, had remained.
Worse for the wear, rougher around the edges even than when they had first began, but here nonetheless. And, because of the group intervention, so too was Sigurd himself. He had accepted the ration given to him with the weight of the responsibility implicit, and he had taken what he needed to get him through the next few days.
But he had learned to survive on worse, and less.
He did not smile as he approached, but his expression was open, with few hard edges. "Hardly seemed worth it - all that, over you," he said, seating himself beside the other man. With deliberate movements, he took the piece of tack from a pocket and broke it in half, proffering the other section.
"I will be going outside, to find more, if there is more to be found. I was hoping you would join me."
Hoping to have a conversation, his tone, his expression and gesture and body language, added.
Food roll: 8! Unsuccessful!
Creature roll: 3! Sigurd is being watched!
Should've Equipped Leftovers
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The shovel made a clean shearing sound as it tore through the earth, the handle rubbing against the raw callouses of his palm.
Euphorie, twenty-nine.
The soil in the village was hard-packed, cavernous earth never meant to be tilled - not to sow, not to reap, implacable and unmoved in the dark and the damp.
Chiron, ten.
The motions were not foreign to him, but not well-practiced, either - not so faraway from death that Sigurd could have claimed he'd never dug a grave, but far enough that he had forgotten the hollow edge, the echo that resounded in his chest, empty of his heartbeat as though in solidarity with theirs.
Brizo, six.
It had all been for nothing. There were times, of course, when Sigurd knew that he could lean naïve, could see the world through a rimmed halo of light that might have shielded him from the worst edges which might have crept close, and he swallowed the bitter disquiet as he set his shovel down and turned for the first body. He had thought that after all that strife, all the arguing, that it might have saved the children's lives, at the very least.
He knelt beside Chiron, his blue hands now still at his sides, and Sigurd scrubbed a hand over his face, as though that might smear the image behind his eyes of the boy reaching for fishes in the glinting stream. Gently, he tapped a finger to the back of the boy's hand.
"I am sorry, lad."
@aimlessarchery & @unsungblade
Heartbreaking! The Worst Man You Know Also Grieves
#in character#toaapollyonouranos2024#aopi2024#thread: heartbreaking! worst man you know#interaction: aimlessarchery#interaction: unsungblade#thank maddie for the title
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"Ah. There you are."
He hums as he closes the distance, circling around to the front where the knight stands at his appointed position - a vaunted guard of the scant remaining stores.
"Lord Sigurd." The monk flashes him a guileless smile. Stomach rumbles, but he raises his hands in preemptive defense. "Lest you worry, I am not here to change my mind about forsaking my own ration. Rather..."
He reaches to his side, casually retrieving his staff.
"I'm here to make good on my earlier recommendation, if you'll allow me."
Keranes is here too, looking straight ahead as though lost in thought. (Can't guard precious precious treasure all alone, after all. That's just asking for trouble.)
"You will, won't you? I should like to prove some manner of useful, if possible."
Sigurd was of a mind that the most extenuating circumstances showed the true mettle of a man - when he is tired, or cold, or wounded and uncomfortable, or unhappy.
Or hungry.
Most would like to assume that they were in control of their faculties, that something so base as human urges could be brought to heel with enough willpower. They were wrong - each man was a slave to their body, and more often than one might expect, it was hunger which held the leash.
He sighed, tipping his head back to rest it against the wooden wall where their stores lay, feeling the twinge in his gut, the shivering heat that wrought weakness against all of his limbs. He was a pale imitation of himself, and for the first time since reawakening all those months ago, he felt it. Keranes, when she had seated herself beside him, had glanced over him once, and shook her head in the way that people did when they thought they wouldn't be noticed.
Still, he had the faculties to notice the approach of footsteps, and though Sigurd might have scarce had the strength to stand, his grip tightened around the haft of his lance.
It did not loosen at the sight of the smiling monk, the face lined with hunger as the rest, though…
Sigurd smiled in return, took the other man at his face - he had, after all, expressed a disinterest at the physical world. Perhaps he was a truly holy man, after all.
"You cannot blame me my suspicions, my friend. I - you are too kind, I'm not sure you need to - "
But he felt it. In that moment, in spikes beforehand - during the roundtable, when all eyes weighed heavily on him, not just with expectation but with dread. Dread that such a force among them would fall so early. He felt the shame of it, that predicated failure that he could not allow.
His smile softened, and his grip loosened. "You are a good man, sir monk. It is a relief, to know that our trust in you, at least, can stand unwavering."
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Welcome to the Gun Show. Axe Show. Mushrooms.
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Whoa! Nice Creepy Doll You Got There
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"Another skill for your resume," Sigurd interjected with a smile. "To be able to relate to those in your care, or those you fight alongside, is no small feat!"
And, Sigurd did not add, he himself had been known to share a story a time or two. In times of duress, or in times of calm, or in times where the two seemed inextricable from one another, it was important, he felt, to remind yourself or those around you that there was something to live for outside of the present moment – be it to relive the past, or to make plans for the future.
"Well done, lad!" Sigurd added to Chiron, who had immediately plunged his hands back into the water in search of another fish to reach for – the glow of his little fists glinted in the water, a mosaic of shimmer and sunshine so bright that for a moment Sigurd had not even noticed that there no longer seemed to be any fish nearby.
Fishing roll: 8+2 = 10, lessgo fellas
He sighed once, lightly, at first with only the thought that perhaps they had been chased off by the splashing of Chiron's feet in the shallow water as he kicked some of the stones peeking up from thee surface – but then, his brow pinching into a frown, he realized something with some trepidation.
"Chiron, lad, come back for a moment, if you would." The boy obeyed him readily, trotting back to the riverbank with an eager look in his eye, as though waiting for direction, or a story from the outside world. Sigurd smiled down at him, placed a broad hand on the top of his head to ruffle his hair, and gestured to the stones smoothed by the water; "Why don't you find us the roundest, smoothest, flattest rock you can? Will you do that? Go on."
When the boy trotted off, affecting a calm tone as not to alert the little boy to any distress, to Soren and Forde he added, "The water was at the boy's knees only a moment ago, wasn't it?"
Though his inflection rose at the end, it was not a question.
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Drop the (sea) bass
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